Actually the computer industry is replete with 'wonderful technologies' that died soon after. Remember doublespace for drives? I also remember the huge fanfare for diskless network computers and how within a few years everybody would have one and just load off the internet.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 8:31 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: RE: SCSI drives and VFP data tables I remember watching demos of those for document storage at an Army show. Put all your drawings, CAD Designs, scanned files on them. They didn't last long at all in the market place as cheaper and bigger hard disks and CDs became available. ************************************************* 1/20/2013 Eviction Notice http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike/6169336 --- On Tue, 1/27/09, Gil Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Gil Hale <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: SCSI drives and VFP data tables > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 4:21 PM > I bet they sold a lot to government agencies, then abandoned > support within > a few months or years when it was obvious they were doomed > to failure. I > saw a lot of these high capcity optical drives being > peddled to mid-sized > businesses. The appeal was the huge capcity, I think just > about 500Mg or so > (!). One ad for these optical drives had an advertisement > with a tag line > stating, "Put a fork in it, hard drives are > done!" Well, not so fast my > friend, soon after higher capacity HDDs came out (up to a > whopping 1Gb for a > mere $800! I know, I bought one!). The "fork" > ended up going into the > writeable optical drives for all but specialty purposes > (WORM for document > archiving and short term storage). > > Gotta love progress... > > Gil > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Jean > Laeremans > > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:45 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: SCSI drives and VFP data tables > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Gil Hale > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Once upon a time - maybe they still exist - there was > something > > called video disks which boiled down to SCSI drives > with the safety > > disabled (they ran slower when they got hot) so they > had a limited > > lifespan .... (mostly IBM disks if i remember clearly) > > > > A+ > > jml > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
